Three-Dimensional Week-Long Simulations of TOGA COARE Convective Systems Using the MM5 Mesoscale Model

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 2326-2344

  Su, Hui ^a   Chen, Shuyi S ^a   Bretherton, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR REFLECTION; RAIN; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH MESOSCALE MODEL; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; INTENSIVE FLUX ARRAY; PERIODIC LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL NONHYDROSTATIC MESOSCALE MODEL;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

CLIMATE MODELING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; HEAT FLUX; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 0032761941     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<2326:TDWLSO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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